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Symbols & Motifs - Coggle Diagram
Symbols & Motifs
Colours
Ripeness, shame, fertility
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Tulips in Serena Joy's garden: sex organs which will have futile offspring as she snips off their fruits
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Makeup
Femininity, power, sexuality
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Alternatively can be seen as freeing that women don't have to use makeup to compete for men (Commander's view)
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Handmaid's shouldn't attempt to be beautiful, would perhaps tempt the people they serve (Offred tries to)
Eye
Paranoia, surveillance, Gilead's authority
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'Blinded eye' in her room is from a light fixture that the previous handmaid used to kill herself, therefore it represents death and freedom